Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Arthur Cole.

Do you have your hybrid cloud yet? Are you planning to get one? If not, you may already be behind the curve, but that might not be a bad thing considering the immaturity of the technology and the still looming possibility that it might not do everything that it is expected to do.

To give credit where credit is due, even those who stand to gain financially from selling hybrid cloud services are working hard to prevent wishful thinking from getting ahead of reality. Rackspace, for one, is not shy in claiming that the hybrid cloud is the wave of the future, but cautions that it is not the ideal solution for all applications. Hybrids will most certainly cost less than traditional infrastructure, but security is more complicated–not less effective, just harder to implement–and the ability to offload key applications can be hampered if the public provider does not offer the correct APIs…

Grazed from ChannelWeb. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud may be everywhere, but so are mobile devices. This is what’s exciting the channel today: providers see increasing demand for enterprise mobility offerings that expedite processes and boost customer business outcomes, according to CA Technologies’ Channel Index 2013.

According to the survey of 550 tech providers, 84 per cent expected to see increased spending in enterprise mobility over the next year. Almost all (94 per cent) believed the rapid adoption of mobile offerings by end users will open opportunities to help grow their businesses…

Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Josh Constine.

The shift to mobile is sucking the money out of e-commerce, but BloomReach thinks big data can save the day. Today it brings its big-data content optimization SaaS to the small screen to add smart product recommendations, predictive search, a trending section and cross-device personalization to the mobile presence of any business. BloomReach makes your app more relevant to boost sales with data science.

It’s already working on the web. The startup crawls the web learning what people search for, click on, and share. It then uses the information to improve a business’s ads, point them to personalized landing pages for each visitor, and show potential customers the products they’re most likely to buy…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

As the wave of cloud computing continues to ripple through the technology world, many applications are being left behind because they don’t translate well into being delivered as a software as a service (SaaS) in the cloud, says Osman Kent, founder of Numecent, which aims to fix that problem.

The company’s CloudPaging technology turns applications into ones that can be delivered as a cloud-based software as a service. There could be significant value in “cloudifying” apps: Kent says the SaaS market is about $30 billion, but growing at about 17% annually; native Microsoft Windows apps are about a $300 billion market, but are growing about 3% annually. That’s a big market opportunity to turn Windows apps into cloud apps. Today, the company, which was founded in 2009, just got a $13 million funding infusion, led by T-Venture, the VC arm of Deutsche Telekom…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Open Software Integrators, LLC (OSI) today announced a strategic partnership with leading Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, CloudBees. This partnership will allow users of the CloudBees Platform to take full advantage of a complete package of professional services in North America.

Open Software Integrators is a leading open source, professional services company specializing in big data consulting and developing cloud-based solutions. OSI president, Andrew C. Oliver is enthusiastic about the PaaS trend and partnering with a former associate. "In this partnership, I am reunited with my friend and former JBoss colleague Sacha Labourey…

Grazed from Exigent. Author: PR Announcement.

TurnKey Cloud is a new service which has been released by Exigent Technologies, and will make it easier and more affordable for SMBs in New York and New Jersey to transition to cloud computing solutions. Exigent’s TurnKey Cloud services are currently available, and have been developed especially for SMBs. Customizable, cloud-based infrastructure solutions and data center services are featured, and this means that business availability will be ensured, and will allow smaller companies to consume information technology as a service (IaaS), instead of keeping it as a continuous expenditure.

Further to cutting costs and saving time, SMBs in the U.S. that are at present using a cloud service, are beginning to understand the key privacy, security and reliability advantages over companies that do not use cloud services, according to a recent Microsoft study. Ninety-four percent of SMBs (using one or more cloud services) polled in the study noted that they have more security benefits; something which was not available to them through previous on-premises technologies…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

It’s like cloud providers are engaging in a cutthroat limbo contest as they continue to ask each other, "How low can you go?" As we noted last week, cloud providers seem to be engaging in a price war, but the truth is as price cuts happen, others simply follow suit. And it’s not just the big boys playing the game. Some of the small and midsize players are also reducing prices in what is quickly becoming the norm in the cloud computing space.

Take Caspio as a good example. The PaaS provider has announced a new pricing plan to removes the pay-per-usage model most cloud providers pride themselves on in favor of a "one price fits all" plan. Caspio, which provides a PaaS for custom business applications, has removed all caps on applications, users, storage and email messages within its new Standard pricing plan…

Grazed from Asustek. Author: PR Announcement.

Taiwan’s Asustek Computer (Asus) has announced that it will be partnering with the Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs to establish a new cloud computing services marketplace.

The new platform, Taiwan Digital Mega Mall, will be set up to integrate Taiwan-based content providers, development tool providers and online content stores, and will initially be focused on providing content providers (publishers, game operators and software vendors) with the means to make their content digitally available. The offering will be initially focused on business to business sales, although Asus has confirmed that this will eventually expand to include business to consumer interactions…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Crowdsourced cloud developer CloudSpokes released a new cloud-based tool that automatically analyzes the build, quality and security of code to provide businesses and developers with insight into the stability of submitted code.

Thurgood, the company’s software development tool, accepts all coding languages and leverages Cloudbees’ Jenkins Enterprise and Checkmarx security and vulnerability scan, aiming to provide automated quality and security review of submitted software development packages, the company said…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Actian has launched its a new elastic cloud platform that was designed to integrate cloud and on-premises applications while providing robust data quality and other data services. The DataCloud platform and another new offering, the ParAccel Big Data Analytics Platform, were built using acquired technology from ParAccel, Pervasive Software and Versant.

The vendor is focused on the Big Data analytics space, but with DataCloud, it is aiming to provide "invisible integration" to provide a variety of data and application integration services in the cloud. Customers get a choice of three tiers:…